IN RE COMMITMENT OF FIELDS

No. 115542.

10 N.E.3d 832 (2014)

2014 IL 115542

381 Ill. Dec. 423

In re COMMITMENT OF Justin FIELDS. The People of the State of Illinois, Appellant, v. Justin Fields, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

May 22, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lisa Madigan , Attorney General, of Springfield ( Michael A. Scodro , Solicitor General, and Michael M. Glick and Lindsay Beyer Payne , Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

Daniel T. Coyne , Matthew M. Daniels , and Michael R. Johnson , of Law Offices of Chicago-Kent College of Law, of Chicago, for appellee.


OPINION

Justice FREEMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.

¶ 1 In March 2011 a jury found respondent Justin Fields to be a sexually violent person (SVP) under the Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act (SVP Act or the Act) (725 ILCS 207/1 et seq. (West 2012)). After the circuit court of Cook County entered judgment, respondent requested (1) a date for a dispositional hearing, and (2) a pre-hearing evaluation. In denying respondent...

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